In the frame of the iconic photographer Dennis Stock

The name of the photographer is not known to everyone, but it is difficult to find a person who is not familiar with his works. Dennis Stock captured a thoughtful Audrey Hepburn in a car window, Louis Armstrong backstage at a concert in his underwear, Miles Davis playing jazz amid the smoke of a nightclub and many more actors and musicians, as well as the counterculture of bikers and California hippies in the 1960s.

Dennis Stock was born in 1928 in the Bronx. At the age of 17, he joined the ranks of recruits of the United States Navy. In 1947, he became a student of the brilliant Albanian photographer Gien Mili, who worked for Life magazine. The victory in the competition for young photographers organized by Life was the first serious achievement of Stock. After that, in 1951, he joined the Magnum Photos agency, with which he linked his creative life for decades.

Stock made iconic portraits of movie stars and musicians: Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington. Stock published photos of virtuoso jazz performers taken in 1957-1960 in his book "Jazz Street". He achieved an amazing effect without the help of sound to evoke a sense of jazz, its place and time.

Dennis Stock, 1951. The author of the photo: Andreas Feininger.

In the late 1960s, Stock captured the attempts of California hippies to rebuild society in accordance with the ideals of love. Artists, bikers, hippies, musicians and hitchhikers shared a common nonconformist approach to life, which attracted the photographer and inspired him to shoot.

Venice Beach Rock Festival, California, 1968.

Since the 1950s, Dennis Stock has held numerous seminars annually and has exhibited widely in the most prestigious art galleries in the world in France, Germany, Italy, the United States and Japan. His photographs have joined the collections of many major museums. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Stock worked on color photo books, emphasizing the beauty of nature through small details and landscapes. In the 1990s, he returned to his urban origins, studied the modern architecture of large cities. His later works are colored and abstract.

A beauty contest for cattle at the Iowa State Fair, 1965.

"Art is a clearly expressed manifestation of one of the aspects of life. I was lucky enough to look at most of my life through my cameras, which turns the path into enlightened experiences. My emphasis was mainly on positive reactions of human behavior and a strong attraction to beauty in nature," Stock said. In his later years, he gravitated towards color photography and changed the genre. Landscapes with lavender fields and tulip plantations attracted him with serenity. "In the end, we all strive for this," the photographer said.

Cafe De Flor, Paris, France, 1958.

Fair in Iowa, 1969.

Valerie Giscard d'Estaing with her black Labrador (received as a gift from Queen Elizabeth II). Chanon, France.

The coast of San Diego, California, 1968.

Los Angeles, 1968.

A man with a surfboard, California, 1968.

Bikers, 1971, USA.

Biker, 1971, USA.

Members of a biker gang, Colorado. 1971.

Spiritual dances in the commune. New Mexico, USA, 1969.

Pacifist demonstration in Santa Monica, California.

The drivers of the convoy rest on the way to Alaska, USA, 1951.

Free Road, USA, 1971.

President Lyndon Johnson at his ranch, Texas, 1963.

Roman Polanski in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, 1981.

James Dean in Times Square, New York, 1955.

Marilyn Monroe, USA, 1954.

Marilyn Monroe, 1953.

Trumpeter and singer Ernest Miller, nicknamed Punch Miller, returns home at 6 am. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1958.

Jazz musician Louis Armstrong in the dressing room at the Latin Casino nightclub, Philadelphia, 1958.

Jazz musician, pianist and band leader Earl Hines, trombonist Jimmy Archie, cornetist Francis Joseph "Muggsy" Spanier and drummer Earl Watkins. San Francisco, California, 1958.

Miles Davis, 1958.

Frank Sinatra. The ball on the occasion of the inauguration of President Kennedy. Washington, 1961.

Bill Crow, New York, 1958.

Audrey Hepburn on the set of Billy Wilder's film "Sabrina", 1954.

Audrey Hepburn on the set of Billy Wilder's film "Sabrina". New York, 1954.

Audrey Hepburn on the set of Billy Wilder's film "Sabrina". New York, 1954.

Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra on the set of the film directed by Charles Walters "High Society", 1956.

Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra on the set of the film directed by Charles Walters "High Society", which also played Bing Crosby, Celeste Holm and Louis Armstrong. Hollywood, 1956.

Arthur Miller and his wife Inge Morat wait at the theater on the night of the premiere of his play "After the Fall", New York, 1964.

John Wayne on the set of the movie "Fort Alamo", USA, 1959.

On the set of the movie "Planet of the Apes", 1967.

"Planet of the Apes", 1967.

Sacramento Fair, Military Exhibition, California.

At the fair in Sacramento, California, 1968.

North Hollywood, California, 1968.

Community of pensioners "Leisure world", 1968.

California State line on Lake Tahoe, 1968.

A farm in Mississippi, 1969.

La Jolla, California, 1968.

The campus of the University of California at Irvine, 1968.

Along the Waterfront, California, 1968.

A couple in Novato, California, 1968.

On a California beach, 1968.

California, 1968.

Rest on the sidewalk in San Francisco, 1968.

Park in Monterey, California, 1968.

In California, 1968.

From the series "Road People", Georgia, 1971.